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Exploring Medical in Sacramento: A Comprehensive Overview

Sacramento, California, is not only the capital city but also a hub for healthcare services in the region. From world-class hospitals to specialized clinics, Sacramento offers a wide range of medical facilities to meet the diverse healthcare needs of its residents. Whether you're seeking routine care, specialized treatment, or emergency services, navigating the landscape of medical in Sacramento can be made easier with the right information. That is why AllMed Medical Center is Sacramento's best primary urgent care practice. A lot goes into that, but at the core, this means medical care devoted to you and your family. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of medical services in Sacramento, covering hospitals, clinics, specialties, and healthcare resources available to residents.

Specialized Clinics and Centers:

Sacramento hosts numerous specialized clinics and medical centers catering to specific healthcare needs. Patients can access specialized care tailored to their conditions, with multidisciplinary teams collaborating to deliver personalized treatment plans and innovative therapies.

Primary Care Providers:

Primary care is the cornerstone of healthcare, providing preventive services, routine check-ups, and management of chronic conditions. Sacramento boasts a network of primary care providers, including family physicians, internists, pediatricians, and nurse practitioners, who serve as the first point of contact for patients seeking medical care. Establishing a relationship with a trusted Sacramento medical center is essential for maintaining overall health and wellness.

Urgent Care Centers:

For non-life-threatening medical issues that require prompt attention but do not warrant a trip to the emergency room, Sacramento offers a variety of urgent care centers. These facilities provide convenient access to medical care outside of regular office hours, with shorter wait times and lower costs compared to emergency departments. 24 hour urgent care in Sacramento treats a wide range of conditions, including minor injuries, infections, and illnesses. In such a scenario, the name of AllMed Medical Center comes first as it offers 24*7 urgent care services.

Telemedicine and Virtual Care:

With advancements in technology, telemedicine and virtual care options have become increasingly prevalent in medical in Sacramento. Patients can access medical consultations, follow-up appointments, and even urgent care services remotely through telehealth platforms.

Community Health Clinics:

Community health clinics play a vital role in providing accessible healthcare services to underserved populations in Sacramento. These clinics serve individuals and families who may face barriers to healthcare access, including lack of insurance, language barriers, or socioeconomic challenges. Community health clinics offer primary care, preventive services, behavioral health counseling, and specialty referrals, often on a sliding fee scale or at reduced costs.

Bottom Line:

Medical in Sacramento encompasses a diverse array of hospitals, clinics, specialties, and resources aimed at meeting the healthcare needs of its residents. Whether seeking routine care, specialized treatment, or emergency services, patients in Sacramento have access to high-quality medical care delivered by skilled professionals committed to improving health outcomes and enhancing patient well-being. If you and your loved ones are looking for high-quality medical services as well as vaccination in Sacramento, you can contact AllMed Medical Center.

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Shlomo Rechnitz nursing home suit over COVID deaths reflects ‘broken state licensing’

The state’s largest nursing home owner, Shlomo Rechnitz, is facing a lawsuit alleging that one of his homes is responsible for the COVID-related deaths of some 24 elderly and dependent residents.

The catch? Five years ago, the state denied Rechnitz and his companies a license to operate the place, the state’s own records show.

The case brought against Rechnitz, his companies and the home itself, Windsor Redding Care Center, is yet another footnote in an ongoing nursing home licensing saga documented in a last spring.

That investigation revealed an opaque and confusing state licensing process frequently marred by indecision and delays. We found that the California Department of Public Health has allowed Rechnitz to operate many skilled nursing facilities for years through a web of companies as their license applications languish in “pending” status — or are outright denied.

The lawsuit — which includes a total of 46 plaintiffs, including 14 deceased residents and 32 family members — specifically calls out Rechnitz and his management companies as being an “unlicensed owner-operator” of the skilled nursing facility. The plaintiffs also are suing the previous owners, whose names and companies remain on the license.

Family members of residents who died as a result of a COVID-19 outbreak last fall are suing the facility for elder neglect and abuse, alleging that Windsor Redding forced employees to come into work while symptomatic with the virus, triggering the outbreak.

The complaint further alleges that dozens of residents who fell ill were left isolated and neglected due to “extreme understaffing.” One nurse told state inspectors that she alone had to pass out medications to 27 COVID-positive patients, meaning the medications were often late, according to an Oct. 21, 2020, inspection report, also cited in the lawsuit. Another nurse told them that nurses on the COVID unit, or “Red Zone,” were “stressed, overloaded and tapped out” and unable to take breaks, the report said.

The complaint lists 142 violations substantiated by investigators including neglect, abuse, staffing and infection control issues between January 2018 and June 2021. In November 2020, the federal government fined the facility $152,000 as a result of the inspections.

A ‘broken’ licensing system

Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi of Los Angeles said the lawsuit against the Redding facility, located 160 miles north of Sacramento, “clearly provides Exhibit A of the broken state licensing system for nursing homes.”

“The fact that this facility had its license application denied and yet they continued to operate during this pandemic, which unfortunately led to an alleged 24 deaths from COVID, highlights the urgent need for the state to fix its broken licensing system,” he said.

On Tuesday, the Assembly Health Committee will hold an informational hearing to discuss problems with nursing home oversight and licensing in the state.

Rechnitz, a Los Angeles entrepreneur, was in his mid-30s when he began buying nursing homes 15 years ago. He and his companies, including Brius Healthcare, have acquired at least 81 facilities around California, making him the state’s biggest for-profit nursing home owner.

Rechnitz and his companies operate more than a quarter of those facilities despite the fact that the California Department of Public Health has not approved — or has outright rejected — their licensing applications, according to state records. In the case of five “Windsor” facilities, including Windsor Redding, Rechnitz and his companies continue to run them after the state’s license denial. The previous owners’ companies, affiliated with the Windsor brand, are still listed in state records as the official license-holders.

Mark Johnson, an attorney who represents Rechnitz and Brius, said in an emailed statement that he could not comment on pending litigation except to say that: “The facility vehemently disagrees with the allegations and it intends to defend the action vigorously.”

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Shlomo Rechnitz nursing home suit over COVID deaths reflects ‘broken state licensing’

Johanna Trenerry of Happy Valley holds a photograph of herself with her husband, Art Trenerry, who died last year of COVID-19 while staying at Windsor Redding Care Center. His family members, including Johanna, are named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the facility. Photo by Matt Bates for CalMatters

IN SUMMARY

A lawsuit describes nursing home magnate Shlomo Rechnitz and his companies as the “unlicensed owner-operator” of a troubled Redding facility.

The state’s largest nursing home owner, Shlomo Rechnitz, is facing a lawsuit alleging that one of his homes is responsible for the COVID-related deaths of some 24 elderly and dependent residents. 

The catch? Five years ago, the state denied Rechnitz and his companies a license to operate the place, the state’s own records show.

The case brought against Rechnitz, his companies and the home itself, Windsor Redding Care Center, is yet another footnote in an ongoing nursing home licensing saga documented in a CalMatters investigation last spring. 

That investigation revealed an opaque and confusing state licensing process frequently marred by indecision and delays. CalMatters found that the California Department of Public Health has allowed Rechnitz to operate many skilled nursing facilities for years through a web of companies as their license applications languish in “pending” status — or are outright denied. 

The lawsuit — which includes a total of 46 plaintiffs, including 14 deceased residents and 32 family members — specifically calls out Rechnitz and his management companies as being an “unlicensed owner-operator” of the skilled nursing facility. The plaintiffs also are suing the previous owners, whose names and companies remain on the license.

Family members of residents who died as a result of a COVID-19 outbreak last fall are suing the facility for elder neglect and abuse, alleging that Windsor Redding forced employees to come into work while symptomatic with the virus, triggering the outbreak. 

The complaint further alleges that dozens of residents who fell ill were left isolated and neglected due to “extreme understaffing.” One nurse told state inspectors that she alone had to pass out medications to 27 COVID-positive patients, meaning the medications were often late, according to an Oct. 21, 2020, inspection report, also cited in the lawsuit. Another nurse told them that nurses on the COVID unit, or “Red Zone,” were “stressed, overloaded and tapped out” and unable to take breaks, the report said.

The complaint lists 142 violations substantiated by investigators including neglect, abuse, staffing and infection control issues between January 2018 and June 2021. In November 2020, the federal government fined the facility $152,000 as a result of the inspections.

A ‘broken’ licensing system

Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi of Los Angeles said the lawsuit against the Redding facility, located 160 miles north of Sacramento, “clearly provides Exhibit A of the broken state licensing system for nursing homes.”

“The fact that this facility had its license application denied and yet they continued to operate during this pandemic, which unfortunately led to an alleged 24 deaths from COVID, highlights the urgent need for the state to fix its broken licensing system,” he said.

On Tuesday, the Assembly Health Committee will hold an informational hearing to discuss problems with nursing home oversight and licensing in the state.

“They know this operator is running the facility, and they’re not doing anything about it. In a sense, the state could be co-defendants in this case.”

Rechnitz, a Los Angeles entrepreneur, was in his mid-30s when he began buying nursing homes 15 years ago. He and his companies, including Brius Healthcare, have acquired at least 81 facilities around California, making him the state’s biggest for-profit nursing home owner. 

Rechnitz and his companies operate more than a quarter of those facilities despite the fact that the California Department of Public Health has not approved — or has outright rejected — their licensing applications, according to state records. In the case of five “Windsor” facilities, including Windsor Redding, Rechnitz and his companies continue to run them after the state’s license denial. The previous owners’ companies, affiliated with the Windsor brand, are still listed in state records as the official license-holders.

Mark Johnson, an attorney who represents Rechnitz and Brius, said in an emailed statement that he could not comment on pending litigation except to say that: “The facility vehemently disagrees with the allegations and it intends to defend the action vigorously.” 

Johnson has previously declined to answer detailed questions about the licensing issues. But he has expressed frustration in emailed statements to CalMatters about the state’s inconsistent approach to Brius homes — approving some, denying others, and leaving still others stuck in pending status.

The death of Art Trenerry

Art Trenerry arrived at Windsor Redding on Aug. 6, 2020, after suffering a stroke, his family and attorney say. Several of Trenerry’s family members are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. 

Visitors weren’t allowed inside at the time, they told CalMatters. Instead, Johanna, his wife of 60 years, and their children would visit outside the window, said one of their daughters, Nancy Hearden, in an interview. Sometimes the facility would wheel the wrong person out, she said.

Johanna said she would ask nurses to hold the phone to her 82-year-old husband’s ear so she could tell him “Hi Dad, I love you.” 

His daughters called twice a day to check on him, growing concerned by their perception that “things aren’t right,” Hearden said. They began looking to move him to a new facility, or to bring him home, she said.

Hearden said she called in a complaint about the care her father received to Shasta County’s public health department on April 20, 2021. “Their response to me was, ‘they’re complying now,'” she said.

Hearden said she had not known who owned the facility when her father arrived there. The state denied Rechnitz licenses to operate Windsor Redding and four other facilities in July 2016, citing the poor track records of many facilities “owned, managed, or operated, either directly or indirectly, by the applicant,” according to 22-page denial letters addressed to Rechnitz. 

Two departments within state government record Rechnitz’ relationship to the Redding facility differently. Rechnitz is listed as the owner of Windsor Redding in cost reports filed with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in 2020. But his name is not on the California Department of Public Health’s consumer website, Cal Health Find, which identifies the facility’s owner/operator as Lee Samson, Lawrence Feigen and two limited liability companies with the Windsor brand. Windsor still operates nursing homes in California and Arizona, according to its website. 

The lawsuit, filed last month in Shasta County Superior Court, also alleges that Rechnitz and his “management operating companies” circumvented the state’s denial by creating a “joint venture” with Samson and a limited liability company affiliated with S&F Management. 

S&F is a West Hollywood-based company that provides “professional consulting services to Windsor facilities,” Todd Andrews, senior vice president of S&F Management Co., told CalMatters in March. When asked about the lawsuit last week, Andrews said that his company and its president and CEO, Lee Samson — also named as defendants in the complaint — have had no day-to-day involvement with the facility. He said the state “has not transferred the license in over seven years,” despite repeated appeals, so Windsor remains the licensee.

A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health declined to comment on the case because it is pending litigation. 

Nursing home oversight in legislative crosshairs

Assemblymember Muratsuchi authored a bill earlier this year that would forbid the use of management agreements to “circumvent state licensure requirements” and would require owners and operators to get approval from the California Department of Public Health before acquiring, operating or managing a nursing home.

Long before COVID-19, Windsor Redding had a history of care problems. Given that, the complaint says, “it was foreseeable that Defendants would continue to neglect and harm more residents during the pandemic.”

In August 2020, state inspectors cited the facility for admitting patients who were negative for COVID-19 into rooms with residents who were positive for the virus, or had been exposed. 

COVID outbreak sweeps through home

By the next month, the facility had an outbreak — 60 of the 83 residents contracted the virus, and “approximately 24” passed away from complications related to COVID-19, the complaint states. (The state identified 23 COVID-related deaths at the home last fall and winter.)

In September 2020, the California Department of Public Health conducted an inspection of the facility and declared an “immediate jeopardy,” the level of deficiency reserved for the most egregious incidents in nursing homes that could cause serious injury or death. 

Among the inspection’s findings: the facility had punitive sick leave policies. Two staff members reported being told to come into work despite having symptoms of COVID-19, including “body aches, chills, sweats and respiratory symptoms” for one and “loss of taste, lethargy, and cough” for the other, according to a Sept. 25, 2020, inspection report. Both eventually tested positive. 

The complaint alleges, further, that the defendants have a “general business practice” of understaffing the facility. 

“It makes dying alone even lonelier,” said Wendy York, a Sacramento attorney specializing in nursing home abuse whose firm is among three representing the families.  “My heart gets heavy when I think of them in this unit, in this environment.”

Tony Chicotel, staff attorney for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said he holds the state partly to account for the outbreak.

“They know this operator is running the facility, and they’re not doing anything about it,” he said. “In a sense, the state could be co-defendants in this case.”

Trenerry family say its goodbyes

The last time Johanna Trenerry was able to see her husband, Art, was the night of Sept. 25, 2020, after he tested positive for COVID. She and some of her children were allotted 15 minutes each to see him. During those minutes, Trenerry sat next to her husband, holding his hand. Right before she left, she raised her face shield and kissed him. He died a week and a half later.

Johanna Trenerry is Catholic, and believes that Art is with God now, and that they’re both keeping an eye on her. Ever since the couple met as 16-year-olds on a blind date, Art had taken care of her, always supporting her “crazy ideas.” She told him she wanted a big family, a farm and a two-story house. “Ok, hon, whatever you want, you can have,” he said. 

He worked as a stationary engineer, doing maintenance at the local hospital in Redding, and served as a volunteer firefighter and on the local water board. They raised eight children together on a 14-acre farm in Happy Valley, a small community outside town. His family describes him as quiet, but funny, always ready to help a neighbor and so devoted to his grandchildren that he built them a miniature railroad track on the property.

When a friend down the street said that her own husband was unwell, Johanna didn’t mince words.

“Don’t send him to a rest home,” she told her friend. “He’ll die there.”

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Broken Leg

Well, here it is. THE WHOLE STORY.

Last month, The Incident

I’m walking AbventureGirl from my car to the movie theater. Between my car and the theater entrance is a curb. Not one of those smooth ones, but the ones with the 90-degree angle.

I got that spastic gait ‘member? So I'm going to step over the curb with my right foot, which is my more spastic side, and I lose my balance. I go to correct my balance with my better side, my left side. This results in me not getting my foot high enough in the moment to clear the curb. There's a small twisting motion, which results in a spiral fracture of my fibula approximately 5 centimeters above the ankle (spiral fracture of the distal Tibia). Due to that twisting motion I mentioned I also fractured the posterior, or backside, of my fibula on the same leg (posterior fracture of the proximal fibula). Tibia is the main bone-or shinbone-of your leg, fibula is the kickstand type bone that runs adjacent to and outside of-lateral to-your shinbone. This is the first time in my life I’ve broken a bone. So I went big! I broke two!

I have often told AbventureGirl, Momma never does anything half-ass. She always does everything whole-ass. Breaking bones is no exception I suppose.

For this next bit, Imma say “I” but picture myself, my mom/rock, and AbventureGirl as the “I” unit.

First, AbventureGirl called my mom from the movie theater curb to ask her to come fetch us and take her and I to the nearest ER. Mom/rock taking us was cheaper and faster than an ambulance. Then, I sit in the lobby of the Sacramento ER for about two hours waiting. I get called back and they do a preliminary triage thing and I’m sent back for an X-ray. THAT HAD TO BE THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE THING I’VE DONE IN MAH LIFE. Even more discomfort than the actual bone breaking. I told the Xray tech, “I can’t move that limb, so I’m counting on you to help me. I may yell a bit, but it’s at the pain not you.” She did the work and gave me some very diagnostic and beautiful images. I’m told to head back out to the lobby to wait for the doctor to read the X-ray.

About an hour and a half later, and after my mom/rock reminds the front counter guy that we’re still waiting. They move me to wait some more in a new location. I play the alphabet car travel game trying to find words that begin with each letter of the alphabet in alphabetical order with the signs around me. I got to P before I was interrupted.

I would like to notify all readers that the ER in real life is NOT the ER you see in movies or TV shows. I expected doctors to come rushing in snap my leg back into place then throw a hard cast on and send me on my way.

But, nopers.

Nope.

Nopity.

Nope.

The ER technician puts my broken leg in a splint. With its wet noodle, dangling, floppy bottom half and everything. This splint included hard fiberglass on the bottom of my foot, keeping it at a 90 degree angle. Two fiberglass boards to support both sides of my leg. It had a lot of padding. And a lot of ace wrap around it all. The ER doctor tells me I get a walker, not crutches cause they're dangerous for me because of the gait. Then they give me two prescriptions to pick up at the pharmacy. Finally, I’m told to call the orthopedist on Monday morning.

Meanwhile, we’re all tired, starving, and getting cranky.

Incident Adjacent

So I go pick up the two meds the ER gives me prescriptions for. I go home, look at the meds for instructions and there are none. I checked the discharge paperwork. Still no instructions on taking these medications. The thing that really gets me is that one of these medications is Norco, an opioid. Now given my training and the profession that I'm aiming for (ultrasound, right) I am keenly aware of the opioid epidemic that society is currently experiencing. I am extremely apprehensive about taking these pills without proper instruction, or without any instruction for that matter.

Annoyed, confused, and scared, I go to urgent care the next day. I meet the superhero of doctors. He lets me see my X-ray. Superhero doctor even called it an “impressive” break. Then he follows it up with “But you don't wanna be impressive when it comes to breaks.” He does conclude though that it's a fairly clean break, as in-it's not shattered to bits so it is reparable. He asked if I was there so I could be referred to orthopedics. In my trust and ignorance I tell Superhero doctor, no the ER doctor told me to call them Monday morning so they must have referred me already. Or something to that extent. Superhero doctor tells me the right way to take the two meds. Calming my anxious spirit around the opioid, he informs me that it’s only for use “break through” pain. This is to say it is only for pain that breaks through the heavy duty, horse pill size definitely NOT over the counter Advil that I was prescribed.

Monday: Call the Ortho

Monday morning I call the orthopedics hospitalist using the phone number on my ER discharge paper work. The hospitalist tells me to call my GP. Okay, whatever man. Either you’re not taking responsibility for your job or the person before you gave me bad information. I call the GP and she confirms that an order was placed for orthopedics and gives me the number. I call the orthopedics office and inquire.

Oh, we don’t do trauma orthopedics in Sacramento, that’s a Carmichael thing. That office is at this phone number XXX-XXXX.

Called XXX-XXXX.

The scheduler is all, What day did you go to the ER? I was at the Sacramento ER on Friday. Okay, that would mean Doctor So-and-So was on duty. I’ll have him review your X-ray and give you a call back later this morning.

Tick-tock goes the clock all the way to 3:00pm. I call the scheduler back. What the double heckers man? I’m sitting here with a broken leg waiting for you to call me back later in the morning. It’s now well into the PM. What’s the plan?

Well we need a referral to our office specifically, not just orthopedics.

I call GP back and let her know I need a referral to trauma orthopedics in Carmichael specifically. Let me explain it to you like you’re five, right? I pretended that the person I was speaking to needed a five year old’s explanation for why the previous referral wasn’t cutting it.

Tuesday: Hello ER My Old Friend

The next day (leg bone is still wiggling around freely in a janky ER splint. I CAN FEEEEEEL it. Gross)

A new girl at trauma orthopedics gets a hold of my file with my diagnostic, beautiful X-rays. She is perhaps the most helpful person, second to Superhero Doctor from urgent care.

I showed your X-ray to Dr. So-and-So. He says you definitely need surgery. Thing is, our referrals only come from Roseville ER, not Sacramento ER. So here’s the plan, honey. Check yourself into Roseville ER. Tell them you’re in excruciating pain because you broke your leg last week. Get admitted, and your case will be forwarded to Dr. So-and-So so you can have the surgery we already know you need.

FINA-fricking-LY. Some progress.

We check into that ER within 45 minutes. It was a further drive but I was gung-ho for something productive, so we were movin’ and a groovin’.

Let’s start with this: the check in differences between the Sacramento ER and the Roseville ER were vast and definite. The number of people in the ER was drastically lower. Friday night at 7:30pm versus Tuesday afternoon at 4:00pm. Don’t get hurt on a weekend night. Like the movie theater, ERs are significantly busier at those times. Also, the demographic of people at the ER was different, too. The Sacramento ER had a lot of inebriated people. In Roseville it was mostly middle aged and elderly patients checking in.

Wait time to be seen was about a tenth of the time. I’m not even exaggerating. Where I waited in the Sacramento ER on Friday for two hours before I was seen, I waited in the Roseville ER for twelve minutes to be sent to my private room for admission and vitals. Private ER Room

In the private room a very nice girl pulled up my X-rays from Friday, took a look at my splint and sad, “That’s NOT gonna work.” Turns out the Sacramento ER splint wasn’t even supporting the proximal posterior break of my fibula. But rather, it was actually lined up right where the break was, leading to potential for it to actually make it worse than the initial impact with the curb the previous week. SUPER awesome right? So the very nice girl of the Roseville ER cautiously removed the splint-the whole time she was being careful to limit my pain as much as possible-she narrated what she was seeing. Apparently, that splint was janky as could be and insufficient and all kinds of bad. She gets me set up with a very different splint which encapsulates both of my breaks and provided me a notable sense of support which the previous one did not.

A couple of hours later, the night shift comes in, shift change happens, and I’m told that a permanent room up on the second floor is available. So they move me to it!

Well, kinda. I guess they move me to the hallway outside of it at first. Because the transporter chica gets us to the room, looks inside, and goes, “Hey, this room hasn’t been cleaned yet.” So transporter chica gets the appropriate people to come clear out everything from the previous patient, gets clean sheets and things put on the bed, and gets the room registered to my name and barcode on my wrist band. Meanwhile, out in the hallway, I spent the next half hour with the intake nurse. We talked about my needs and the potential schedule for the next few days, including but not limited to surgery.

Something that ended up becoming a whole thing was my tiny bottle of medications. I put all of the pills I take on a daily basis in an empty pill bottle. This, apparently, is super concerning to hospitals because even though you can identify pills by using the markings on them and a pharmacy book, they don’t trust it. Suffice it to say that I had to wait THREE days to be allowed to take my DAILY prescription medications. Being hospitalized can be uncomfortable for your health.

Remember from the previous incident adjacent section how I had stopped taking Norco because it’s a opioid and super hero urgent care doctor was all, “yeah, don’t take that unless you have break through pain”?

Well, the upstairs of the ER decided that they were gonna give me only intravenous Norco for pain. I inform the intake nurse what I was told and that Advil had been doing a bang up job of controlling my pain so I’d rather stick with that. She’s all No, we’re here to manage your pain and we’re gonna do that with Norco.

So much for informed consent in patient care, right?

Turns out I have a reaction to Norco and I literally can’t have it. So, eventually they listen to me and stop pumping me full of Norco. They stick with the entirely sufficient Advil. I don’t say it aloud, but I told ya so.

Wednesday: You Wait Until I’m NPO?!

By the third day in Roseville I’m

A) Going stir crazy

B) Bored out of my mind

C) My broken leg is making me so mad

Props to my bestie, FWEND, though, because if it wasn’t for him keeping me company all day via the phone I would have legit lost my mind. He let me bother him all day while he was working, and even on his day off when he was busy taking care of errands he let me interrupt him. He’s the best of friends, FWEND.

Around 10:00 pm I’m told that I get to have surgery tomorrow and get a titanium rod put in my leg and my bone will stop being all wet-noodle-like. YAY! Then at about 11:30 pm a nurse comes to me and says, we need a urine sample to make sure you’re not pregnant before surgery tomorrow. I’m like, “I was eating and drinking ALL DAY TODAY and you could have asked me for it then, but you waited until I’m have to be NPO, nil per os (Nothing enters your mouth, drinks or food) to ask me to PEE IN A CUP FOR YOU?! Do I really have to explain to you why that is not going to work?

The night shift nurses got me hooked up to an IV for hydration purposes and we got the urine sample taken care of. But seriously? Plan better, ya know what I mean?!

Thursday: Wolverine Leg & allergies

Thursday morning I got my titanium rod installed. My leg got an upgrade. From broken to not only NOT broken but TITANIUM. My surgeon, who is a really super awesome human in addition to a great surgeon, told me that I may have a mild skin allergy to the iodine surgery prep solution that they used on my leg. But I have allergies to a lot of hospital grade skin products anyway, including even tegaderm. Tegaderm is the sticky seal used to cover iv insert sites. I have to use an alternate for all of my infusions and such. I got labelled with an allergy tag on my wristband when I was admitted. When I get to surgery I’m told that I will spend one last night in the hospital before discharge the next day. However, DESPITE being labeled with what was supposed to be an obvious red flag symbol for an allergy, I had to remind every doctor and nurse that I have an allergy, what that allergy is, and how to work around it.

Guess who visited me the day before I leave the hospital? The food allergy specialist from the cafeteria. She’s all, do you have any food restrictions? Allerigies? Needs?

Girl, it’s a good thing I freaking don’t, because you’ve come to me on MY LAST DAY.

Guess who else comes to visit! Best FWEND comes to visit me while my mom/rock is there. He really is the best. He left when I called AbventureGirl to do math homework with her. But he was there cheering me up after I had a construction team of surgeons installing titanium to take the place of bone marrow in my tibia.

Friday: I fall at home because there’s stuff on the floor being all tripping hazard-like. That’s gonna be a bruise. A bruise developed two days later.

Saturday: Leaking Leg, Super-hero Doctor TimeThis is gonna be our thing, isn’t it?I just keep bumping into him whenever I have questions about another doctor’s work and they don’t make themselves available to answer said questions.

Sunday: Indian Story I help Abventuregirl write a story for her social studies class. Over the phone and in Google Classroom. Broken legs won’t stop me from Momming!

Monday: Getting things settled into being stuck at home.

Tuesday: Things are settled, now looking for things to do.

Wednesday: The things are now done, so I reach out to work to see if I can do anything from home.

Thursday: I can’t do anything from home so I am stuck watching tv and eating snacks.

Friday: I’m all caught up on my shows and bored.

Saturday: HOME PT. Intake for home physical therapy was done with a therapist who usually doesn’t serve the area I’m in. But she ended up being a girl I went to high school with so that was pretty freaking cool.

Sunday: Kamala Harris I help Abventuregirl with another social studies research paper and assignment. This time in person though, because weekend.

Monday: HOME PT I meet the therapist who is gonna be the therapist I work with for the rest of my referral. She’s epic, and lovely, and pushes me just enough to do the best work. For physical therapy, work life, and family life. She’s become my hype girl.

Tuesday: I meet with Nurse Cleo who gets permission from my surgeon’s office to remove stiches/staples the next eeks. Then I had a video visit with my GP, get EDD advice from her and Doctor Walks Hie Cat, and new Rx (non-opioid) for increased management for PT days.

Let’s pick up the pace for you, my dear readers. Because essentially this just becomes a lot of lather-rinse-repeat. Too much of being trapped at home, a lot of reaching out to support AbventureGirl as she struggles with minimal support from Useless Sack of Flesh, and a little of losing my mind. Being house bound is very hard. The pandemic was a HUGE struggle for me.

Let me sum things up, finally

Here Aurora is, two months after the initial leg breaking, doing physical therapy with my hype girl twice a week and on my own every other day. Word from the professional is that I am getting so strong! I finally have clearance to drive from the surgeon’s office to do “activities as tolerated” so I can run my own errands. Which is a really big deal. I was collecting this to-do list and it was doing nothing but growing and growing and I was actively losing it. My therapist was like, let’s get you grounded, and worked with me to get resources so that I don’t each clinical levels of diagnoses.

I have been doing all kinds of things, now, some from home and some of getting things done out in the wild. You know, cautiously.

I can’t wait to get back to work, though. I miss having a set schedule (I’m a creature of habit), I miss the interaction with good people like FWEND, I miss the income (an adult be having bills, okay?). But surgeon says the in order to let my leg heal the best and not to overdo it (I am an overachiever so even my hype girl says I have to cool it often) So even the company site manager told me to follow the doctor’s orders and not to come back until he gives me official clearance.

The struggle!

I anticipate some big changes coming, though, so I’ll do my best to keep you posted.

Surviving Susac (and broken legs),

Aurora

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Drinking-Water: How it affects your health

Water makes 60% of the human body and is required to maintain a healthy weight, drain pollutants from the body, and generate biological fluids such as saliva. Water also helps with normal bowel function, muscle performance, and clear, youthful skin.

Failure to drink enough water, on the other hand, can result in dehydration and other negative symptoms such as weariness, headache, reduced immunity, and dry skin. The key to avoiding dehydration is to drink ample water and eat water-rich meals.

Signs of Dehydration

Here are some indications that you should start drinking more water if you want to enhance your health.

Persistent Bad Breath: Water is necessary for saliva production and aids in the removal of microorganisms, allow you to maintain your teeth and gums healthy. Water deficiency reduces saliva production and causes bacteria to accumulate on the tongue, teeth, and gums, contributing to bad breath.

Fatigue: If you do not refresh your fluid intake, your energy levels may decrease, causing lethargy and brain fog. So, the next time you go for another cup of coffee, consider whether you need water.

Dull skin: Dehydration manifests itself on your face as dry, ashy skin that appears less luminous, plump, and elastic.

Sweets Cravings: Dehydration impairs the body’s capacity to access glucose stores for energy and might create cravings for sugary and carbohydrate-rich foods. Unusual and sudden desires for sugary foods such as chocolate, doughnuts, cookies, and candies may suggest that your body is dehydrated rather than hungry.

Recurring Illness: Water aids in the removal of toxins, waste, and bacteria from the body, which aids in the battle against disease and infection. It also boosts your immune system, allowing you to be sick less frequently. If you appear to get sick all the time, you may need to start drinking more water to maintain your body free of toxins and performing at its best. Because a lack of water produces exhaustion, you may be less physically active, another risk factor for decreased immunity.

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In California, doctors are ­shipping patients as many as 600 miles away because they can’t be cared for locally. In Florida, nurses are pouring in from out of state to reinforce exhausted medical workers. And in Texas, mayors are demanding the right to shut down their cities to avoid overwhelming hospitals.

In a nation gripped by a record number of coronavirus cases — with severe outbreaks across multiple states and regions — medical systems are increasingly showing the strain, with short­ages of critically needed personnel, equipment and testing.

And officials on Thursday said they are concerned that hospitals will soon hit a breaking point if the trajectory of ever-growing caseloads doesn’t change.

“We can withstand a surge. We can withstand a disaster. But we can’t withstand a disaster every single day,” said Jason Wilson, associate medical director of the emergency department at Tampa General Hospital. “How many jumbo jet crashes can you handle before you run out of capacity? That’s what we’re facing.”

The peril was reflected in another grim set of data out of Florida on Thursday, with the state reporting a record number of deaths — 156 — and adding nearly 14,000 new cases, its ­second-highest total to date. Across the state, nearly 9,000 people remain hospitalized for treatment of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

With patients flooding into emergency rooms, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said the city’s hospitals were at 95 percent capacity.

“We’re running pretty full now,” said Mark Knight, chief financial officer for Miami’s Jackson Health System.

Knight said there were 420 covid-positive patients in the hospital Thursday along with another 175 “persons under investigation” who are suspected of having the virus and awaiting test results. That is many more than the peak of 167 positive patients the three-hospital system had experienced previously, he said.

Wilson, who is also a professor at the University of South Florida, said hospitals across the Tampa area were adding ICU capacity by the day and shifting staff from other areas to meet the growing demand for care. With the average covid-19 patient staying in the hospital for 12 days, Wilson said, doctors were trying to treat patients remotely if at all possible to free up space.

The situation in Florida on Thursday was replicated, at least in part, across a broad swath of the country. Particularly in the South and the West, caseloads have grown exponentially in recent weeks as economies have reopened following the spring shutdown.

In California, the worst effects were being felt in the southern part of the state, where hospitals have been inundated. In Imperial County, along the Mexican border, doctors have been so overwhelmed by the demand for care that they have begun sending patients as far away as Sacramento — a nine-hour drive to the north.

“We’re going to do everything we can to stretch the pipeline. But at the end of the day there are only so many patients you can push through at a given time,” said Carmela Coyle, chief executive of the California Hospital Association.

Coyle said she was particularly concerned that hospitals across the Southwest are all being pressured at the same time — or are bracing for it — making it more challenging for them to help one another.

“Our systems are built to address emergencies that are localized or regionalized. But in a pandemic like this, everybody is stressed,” she said. “Places cannot send help and assistance when everyone is bracing for the same experience.”

With medical staff in especially short supply, Defense Department teams began deploying to California hospitals this week to bolster the response. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), meanwhile, requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) send 1,500 nurses. Across Texas, mayors of some of the state’s biggest cities — including Houston and Austin — are so worried about staffing needs at local hospitals that they have asked for the authority to reimpose stay-at-home orders.

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Bill McKeon, CEO of Texas Medical Center, said his massive hospital complex has room for more covid-19 patients — in a normal year they see 10 million people. But even they can’t handle a surge that goes on forever, largely because of staffing. “Hopefully we’re peaking; we’re hoping it’s not the new normal. That’s the real concern the strain this puts on any hospital system,” he said. “No place can have endless capacity.”

The current crisis across the Sun Belt recalls the early days of the pandemic in New York City, when overwhelmed hospitals canceled all but the most urgent surgeries, brought infected medical workers back without two-week quarantines and declined to attempt resuscitation on some patients who had stopped breathing or went into cardiac arrest.

The military stepped in then, too, but struggled to scale up makeshift facilities fast enough to ease the burden.

“It’s very intense,” said Cindy Zolnierek, CEO of the Texas Nurses Association. “When you have demands that exceed your resources, it’s not a good place to be.”

Ambulances are sometimes stuck waiting at emergency rooms because a hospital has no capacity for another patient. Rural hospitals, she said, can be overwhelmed when even a few fall ill with covid-19.

Zolnierek said the nurses association is advocating for the state to adopt crisis standards of care, which allows hospitals to triage resources based on patients’ likelihood of survival. Several localities in the state have already begun putting such plans in place, she said.

“If you don’t have enough resources, you do have to make very difficult decisions, even in terms of who gets the ICU bed,” Zolnierek said.

Darrell Pile, CEO of the SouthEast Texas Regional Advisory Council, said that has not been necessary in part because the state asked and received the same military support that came to New York.

But, he said, “there are multiple hospitals on saturation, which means they are indicating to our ambulance companies that they are full.”

To meet the surge, some hospitals are reopening vacant wings or putting more beds in the emergency room or recovery rooms.

Arizona has already moved to a crisis-care model, although Arizona Medical Association President Ross Goldberg said he did not believe any hospitals had yet had to triage care at patients’ expense. Hospitals in other cities that became overwhelmed were able to transfer patients to Phoenix, where Goldberg practices surgery at Maricopa Medical Center.

“Any hospital is used to pushing volume when they need to,” Goldberg said. “We’re almost moving the ceiling as we go.”

His biggest concern is not equipment, but people.

“We’re really worried about running through our staff,” he said. “You can put physical beds anywhere. But do you have quality people to man them?”

The well-being of those people is also a serious concern, said Saskia Popescu, a University of Arizona epidemiologist, who noted that a fast-climbing death toll has damaged the morale of exhausted doctors and nurses.

“[Medical workers] have been doing this since February, March. They’re tired and right around the time we were hoping things would slow down is when we reopened and started to see this massive spike,” she said.

Health-care workers are also starting to get sick themselves, she said, as the virus spreads: “Staff are part of the community, and when you have transmission in the community that also impacts them.”

Goldberg said many Arizonans still refuse to accept that the virus is real and dangerous. One of his surgical patients fired him, he said, after he went on television to advocate mask-wearing.

Most states now have rules requiring that masks be worn in public, with the governors of Colorado and Arkansas on Thursday making their states the latest to adopt such restrictions. The governors of Arizona and Florida — both Republicans — have pointedly refused to join in.

Late Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) went so far as to strike down mask ordinances adopted by local authorities, a decision condemned by mayors and health experts.

National retailers continued Thursday to join the ranks of those that insist on masks: Publix, one of the largest supermarket chains across the South, said shoppers will be required to wear face coverings. Walmart, Kroger and Kohl’s had all said the same earlier this week. Many have cited the strain on health systems from raging covid-19 outbreaks.

Those outbreaks are not only hitting the biggest of the Sun Belt states. They are increasingly impacting smaller states with rural populations that had once been relatively insulated.

In Mississippi, 10 ICUs have no beds available and the lack of capacity “is harming patient care,” state Health Officer Thomas Dobbs said at a news conference.

Tim Moore, president of the Mississippi Hospital Association, said that, as in other states, the leading concern was not beds but people, although gloves and face shields have also been in short supply.

“We’re going to use a lot of hospital beds in Mississippi that have not been used in a long time,” he said, especially in rural areas.

Moore said he heard from one hospital where a patient waited in the emergency room for three days because there was no space for him in the ICU.

Mississippi is trying to bring in more nurses, but they are competing with other Southern states and wages are rising fast. Moore said one company has offered contract nurses $100 an hour — twice the normal rate and more than any hospital in Mississippi can afford to pay.

As for the nurses already in the state, many are nearing a breaking point.

“We’ve worn people down,” Moore said. “I’m real worried. The stress level, the emotional strain that our health-care professionals are starting to experience is going to start showing. You can only do this for so long.”

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Costs of payday loan:- Usually a payday loan company charges 15 to 30 USD per $100 borrowed. So, if you borrow $100, you will have to pay 115 to 130 USD on the very next payday. The APR of payday loan cash advance interest boosts up to 391%. Maximum limit of payday loan:- If you are taking a payday loan for the first time, you may get up to $500 for the first time. After you repay back your first loan amount in time, you can avail more than $500 when you revisit the company for another payday loan. Think before taking a payday loan:- 1. You should keep in mind the APR factor of the loan before taking it. You should find the company which is charging a lower APR than its competitors. 2. You should take care about the privacy of your document and information. So, if the tendency of the company is to process applicant's information in an encrypted page, you should think that your information will not be licked out, and then you can proceed on. 3. You should read the company policy and legal matters complied with before submitting an application form to them.

Repayment of payday loan:- The lender company will take the money off from your checking A/c on the date of your payday. You should be ready and aware about your payday and the amount to be repaid. If you fail to repay the loan on the scheduled date then you may have to ask the lender to rollover your loan amount.

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